Brilliant Quotes

On this page you will find all the quotes on the topic "Brilliant". There are currently 1787 quotes in our collection about Brilliant. Discover the TOP 10 sayings about Brilliant!
The best sayings about Brilliant that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
  • Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism of the twentieth century is the echo of words bandied about by brilliant speakers and writers in the second half of the nineteenth.

    Echoes   Events   Half  
    Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”
  • If Edgar Allan Poe were alive today, his agent would be constantly slapping him upside the head with tightly rolled copies of his brilliant short stories and novelettes, yelling, 'Full-length novels, you moron! Pay attention! What's the matter with you -- are you shooting heroin or something? Write for the market! No more of this midlength 'Fall of the House of Usher' crap

    Fall   Writing   Yelling  
  • There are men regarded today as brilliant economists, who deprecate saving and recommend squandering on a national scale as the way of economic salvation; and when anyone points to what the consequences of these policies will be in the long run, they reply flippantly, as might the prodigal son of a warning father: 'In the long run we are all dead.' And such shallow wisecracks pass as devastating epigrams and the ripest wisdom.

    Running   Father   Son  
    Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.12, Crown Business
  • If you are an ardent reader, seek not brilliant and erudite texts; otherwise the demon of haughtiness will strike your heart. But like a wise bee that gathers honey from flowers, so also through your reading obtain healing for your soul.

    Wise   Reading   Flower  
  • More often than not ... 'Selma' focuses on the one thing we don't expect in a movie about Martin Luther King Jr. - his doubts - and Oyelowo comes through with a deeply felt and quite brilliant performance.

    Kings   Doubt   Brilliant  
  • Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.

    Mistake   Army   Victory  
  • If everything is smooth sailing right from the beginning, we cannot become people of substance and character. By surmounting paining setbacks and obstacles, we can create a brilliant history of triumph that will shine forever. That is what makes life so exciting and enjoyable. In any field of endeavour, those who overcome hardships and grow as human beings are advancing towards success and victory in life.

  • My ability to persuade my wife to marry me was quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been impossible for any ordinary man to have got through what I had to go through in peace and war without the devoted aid of what we call, in England, one's better half.

    War   Men   Wife  
    "Churchill by Himself". Book by Richard Langworth, p. 511, 2008.
  • If you want a convincing account of just how deep the shift in our new axial age is and must be, look no further than this brilliant book by Charles Eisenstein, one of the deepest integrative thinkers active today.

    Book   Age   Looks  
  • I want my daughters to see me and know me as a woman who works. I want that example set for them... I am a better mother for it. The woman I am because I get to run Shondaland, because I get write all day, because I get to spend my days making things up, that woman is a better person - and a better mother. Because that woman is happy. That woman is fulfilled. That woman is whole. I wouldn't want them to know the me who didn't get to do this all day long. I wouldn't want them to know the me who wasn't doing.

    Shonda Rhimes' Commencement Address at the Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, www.dartmouth.edu. June 8, 2014.
  • Vermilion alone could render the brilliant red of the tiles on the opposite slope. The orange of the soil, the harsh crude colors of the walls and greenery, the ultramarine and cobalt of the sky achieved an extreme harmony that was sensually and musically ordered.

    Wall   Orange   Color  
  • Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!

    alexander smith (1853). “poems”, p.163
  • I don't deliberately select my friends because of their background. If I enjoy someone's company, then that's all that counts. I have many different friends who aren't from the same background as me and we get on really wellit's brilliant.

  • I was obsessed with country music when I was a kid, and it's definitely had a huge influence on the way I write songs. I was always attracted to songs that had a brilliant pun or a clever turn of phrase, but came from a dark, bitter place. As a writer, I've always gravitated towards that feeling.

    Country   Song   Clever  
  • I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting — its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands, and fathers ... it is only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated ... that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation.

    Husband   Father   Tired  
    Letter to James E. Yeatman on May 21, 1865. "Sherman: Merchant of Terror, Advocate of Peace". Book by Charles Edmund Vetter, p. 289, 1992.
  • History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.

    Fate   People   Brilliant  
  • We get brilliant results from average people managing brilliant processes - while our competitors get average or worse results from brilliant people managing broken processes

  • Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.

    Book   Reading   Thinking  
  • Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?

    "A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of 'A Course in Miracles'". Book by Marianne Williamson, Ch. 7, Section 3, 1992.
  • For just a few dollars registration, you got temporary possession of a good piece of land. Live on it for five years, build a house, and farm it, and it was yours. What a brilliant economic stimulus!

    Years   Land   House  
    Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.
  • I love watching Jeff Bridges act. He's brilliant.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.

    Children   Liars   Lying  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • No matter how brilliant, amusing or intelligent the creek of abstraction, Dadaism, Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 20th century was, it didn't much affect the historical river of figuration. I predict that in 50 years and in 300 years, figurative art will still be strong and important.

  • Simple, practical, brilliant. What a wonderful world it will be when all families give their children the gifts presented in Dr. Reznick’s book. Joy, success . . . and health and happiness are just around the corner!

    Children   Book   Simple  
  • Before the beginning of brilliance, there must be great chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.

    Growth   Looks   Crowds  
  • There is an instinct for realism, a powerful drive to reproduce oneself. The fascination of photorealistic paintings lies partly in their apparent replication of life, but these are not merely replications. These paintings are often out of life scale, varying from over life-size to under life-size, from brilliant, heightened color to pale, undertone hues.

    Powerful   Lying   Color  
    Audrey Flack (1986). “Art & soul: notes on creating”, Dutton Adult
  • Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.

  • The 24 Hour Plays is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.

    Play   Events   Brilliant  
  • The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

    Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.1829, Delphi Classics
  • As we get older, a lot of societies, education systems and workplaces make us feel that playing is a waste of time. We end up suppressing stupidly brilliant questions for what we think are more serious responsibilities.

Page 1 of 60
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • ...
  • 59
  • 60
  • We hope our collection of Brilliant quotes has inspired you! Our collection of sayings about Brilliant is constantly growing (today it includes 1787 sayings from famous people about Brilliant), visit us more often and find new quotes from famous authors!
    Share our collection of quotes on social networks – this will allow as many people as possible to find inspiring quotes about Brilliant!